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by John le Carré (Author) (edit contributors)

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By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was in the good old Cold War days when a cinder-block Wall divided Berlin, and the enemy was easy to recognize. Today, Mundy is a down-at-heel tour... read more

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  • “'You wish to know something, Teddy?''What, my love?''You are a totally insular, imperialistic English arsehole.'”
  • “There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.”
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  • You know the words of the American thinker Dresden James?” “I can’t say I do.” “‘When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.’
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  • the least attractive characteristic of both our Western leaders and their spokesmen: a levitational self-belief that nimbly transcends the realities of human suffering.
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  • He is made up of all the odd bits of his life that are left over after he has given the rest away.
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  • Their one aim is to perpetuate the insane concept of limitless expansion on a limited planet, with permanent conflict as its desired outcome. And their product is the zero-educated robot known otherwise as the corporate executive.”
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  • Tell them God is what man invented to compensate for his ignorance of science and they will call you a Communist.
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  • Mundy is reminded of a truth he has learned about people constantly at war with authority: they’re also in love with it.
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  • He no longer knows which parts of him are pretending. Perhaps all of him is. Perhaps he has never been anything but pretended man. A natural. A naturally pretended
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  • it was launched by a clique of war-hungry Judeo-Christian geopolitical fantasists who hijacked the media and exploited America’s post-9/11 psychopathy.”
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  • the Canadian Naomi Klein, India’s Arundhati Roy, who pleads for a different way of seeing, your British George Monbiot and Mark Curtis, Australia’s John Pilger, America’s Noam Chomsky, the American Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, and the Franco-American Susan George of World Social Forum at Porto Alegre.
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  • The England that awaits the young Mundy is a rain-swept cemetery for the living dead powered by a forty-watt bulb.
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ON THE DAY his destiny returned to claim him, Ted Mundy was sporting a bowler hat balancing on a soapbox in one of Mad King Ludwig's castles in Bavaria.

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  1. John le Carré (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Country: England
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0340832878
Page Count: 544

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